Core Department Faculty Member

Quan D. Mai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Rutgers University. Dr. Mai’s research and teaching interests include work and occupations, social stratification, social movements, and research methods. His scholarship focuses on how a range of social relations—including employment relations, race-ethnic relations, state regulatory capacity, and social movements—combine in the economy, polity, and urban spaces to influence processes of social stratification. His projects explore various consequences of nonstandard employment for workers’ labor market outcomes and socioeconomic well-being.

He is a sociologist studying how work, race, and space shape various dimensions of social inequality in the labor market. His research examines how the experience of nonstandard employment shapes multiple aspects of workers’ lives, including their well-being and labor market prospects. In another line of research, he explores the interaction between media platforms, political institutions, and social movements. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Work and Occupations, Social Science & Medicine and other academic journals.